aithrí

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish aithrige, from Old Irish aithirge,[1] the verbal noun of ad·eirrig (“to improve”), from ath- + ar- + Proto-Celtic *regeti (compare at·reig (“to rise”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

aithrí f (genitive singular aithrí)

  1. penitence, penance, repentance
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 28:
      ńī ʒau ēn fȧkəx gə nə flȧhəš gon æŕī ə jīnə n-ə xørəxī.
      [Ní ghabhfaidh aon pheacach do na flaithis gan aithrí a dhéanamh ina choireacha.]
      No sinner will go to heaven without doing penance for his sins.
      mar ə ńīnə myȷ æŕī ə n-r̥ bȧkī, tā myȷ əŕ fad kāĺcə.
      [Mara ndéanfaidh muid aithrí inár bpeacaí, tá muid ar fad caillte.]
      Unless we do penance for your sins, we are all lost.

Declension

Declension of aithrí

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative aithrí
Vocative a aithrí
Genitive aithrí
Dative aithrí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an aithrí
Genitive na haithrí
Dative leis an aithrí

don aithrí

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aithrí n-aithrí haithrí not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithrige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 32

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